http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/ All the latest news, ideas, and opinions from Denver's Independent Literary Center: lighthousewriters.org Fri, 24 May 2013 03:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-765 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:36:45 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-765 [...] out squeaky clean! Also, who doesn’t like a nice direct sentence from, say, a writer like Tobias Wolff? But I find it equally lovely to get messy in a sentence, to follow the associative currents that [...]

]]> http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-571 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:29:32 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-571 [...] moments before I gave myself wholeheartedly to the Sunday crossword, I was put in a mind of Wolff’s Anders: “a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he dispatched almost [...]

]]> http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-556 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:23:58 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-556 [...] graceful ending to “Bullet in the Brain” (hear it read by the author in the Tobias Tapes, Part I) is one. Consider this following bit (reviled Yankees references notwithstanding), sent to me [...]

]]> http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-553 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:49:55 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-553 [...] The Tobias Tapes, Part II 03Oct07 Here’s where we get to the nitty gritty: How Tobias Wolff hears voices in his head; how mentorship and workshops “work”; how Raymond Carver told stories on himself, horded international sweets on Halloween, and couldn’t say a mean word to anyone; how Gottlieb got the $10,000 word (”hornswoggle”) into polite conversation; and much more.  Somehow the ditty on lying during sermonizing is a lost file (we’re investigating–divine intervention?), but the rest of the event should be here.  Thanks again to all who made it and all who were there in spirit. And don’t forget Part I is here. [...]

]]> http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-543 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:54:32 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-543 Ah, shucks. We’re new to the whole “keep the blog updated” thing, but we’re trying to keep up with the Rockies’ streak. As long as they win, we blog. Thanks for reading, Lisa. And no, YOU’RE the best. –ad

]]> http://lighthouseblog.org/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-541 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:18:05 +0000 http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-tobias-tapes-part-i/#comment-541 Oh my. I don’t check this blog for a couple of weeks and then I come back to find it chock full of great information and updates. I did the Tobias Wolff weekend and it was everything AUN-Dray-AH and Mike say it was and more. He was fabulous, the events were fun, exciting and inspiring, the food and the view were perfect and of course all of the participants were — the coolest. Thanks to all of you who put these events together — they were the best!

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